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For Insomnia

Keep JFK ('91) cued to Donald Sutherland's "Mr. X" scene near the middle of the film, in which he mumbles to Costner on a park bench for what seems like 4 or 5 hours. It's video Xanax: a somnolent actor sleepwalking through a straw-voiced, muttered soliloquy while Oliver Stone's camera work does a slow fade to black. Set your TV timer to blink off at the end of this stultifying 17-minute scene; you'll likely conk out before the tube does. If not, watch it again. Charles Lindbergh couldn't have kept his eyes open through a second viewing.